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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the goings on in the world of ad tech during the last seven days, and in this week’s edition: Rubicon Project posts impressive gains; Europe’s OOH sector primed for programmatic disruption; European ad tech pairing join forces; and US firms man-up ahead of European expansion.

Rubicon Project posts strong gains

A little under a year after it first went public, and Rubicon Project this week posted impressive gains in its latest earnings call, with revenue ($41.8m) [...]

ExchangeWire is priming itself for a busy 2015, with its ATS event series consisting of six confirmed events taking place across three continents, where it will help chart the progress of the programmatic advertising sector, as ad tech becomes the underpinning technology of the entire advertising industry.

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space, and in this week’s edition: Germany’s Fyber sells to RNTS Media; ExchangeWire begins ATS New York countdown; UK digital spend valued at £7bn a year; Ebuzzing adopts the French brand Teads.

German ad tech firm Fyber sells to RNTS Media

Germany-based Fyber had announced its sale to publicly-listed media tittle RNTS Media with reports valuing the transaction at €150m, although the exact [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Amazon’s videogame move; Facebook tweeks ad offering; IPONWEB buys in Europe; Rubicon Project partners with Future; Alibaba and WPP’s telling filings.

Amazon stomps into video ad group with $1bn buy

Amazon this week agreed to acquire videogame-streaming site Twitch Interactive in a deal purported to be worth $1bn, as the ecommerce giant further attempts to shore-up its premium advertising revenues.

Digital ad spend in Europe increased by 11.9% last year to surpass the €27bn mark, with the UK extending its lead as the most developed market in the region, although growth in Western Europe’s second-largest market (Germany), was relatively flat, according to figures released by the IAB.
The figures – dubbed the AdEx Benchmark study – released today (20 May) suggest that total spend was €27.3bn with spend on mobile establish a double-digit market share for the first time, accounting [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space.

Google intensifies battle for app download dollars

Facebook, Twitter and now Google are preparing to intensify competition for mobile app developers’ ad dollars, as Google this week lifted the lid on the latest addition to its AdWords product that lets advertisers more precisely target users, in the same week that Facebook announced that its app install service was the key to its fortunes.

With 33% of German consumers choosing not to engage with a website over privacy concerns, Ken Parnham, managing director, EMEA for TRUSTe, explains just how serious an issue privacy is in Europe’s biggest untapped market.

With the increase of programmatic buying and the online bidding landscape growing in the German market, more US based companies are looking to expand into Germany and take advantage of increased activity in the country’s booming online ad marketplace.

Ahead of next week’s Ad Trader Conference in Berlin, Jeff Green, The Trade Desk, CEO and co-founder, share his views on how adoption of programmatic trading in Europe could outpace its uptake in the US.

Ahead of next month’s Ad Trader Conference hosted in Berlin, Dimo Velev, OpenX, regional director, DACH, asks how can German publishers thrive in the era of big data given the more stringent privacy laws there, compared to the rest of Europe.